fionbarr has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Any information whatsoever

Update:

Is any one using Perl to access a Derby database?

I need to answer question like:

overview of the DBMS itself, what the hierarchy of objects in the DBMS are, what running processes can you find to discover it, how do you find the name of the instances, how do you get a list of databases, how do you find the version number

I have a lot of information about installation, sql usage, etc. but have only been able to instructions to get a list of databases.

Based on a quick metacpan search, it appears that Java::JCR::Jackrabbit defaults to constructing a Derby-based repository if not instructed to do otherwise. So I guess that could provide some example code for you.

This and a URI::derby in the URI-db distribution (which just sets default_port to 1527) are the only evidence of Apache Derby that I can find in the CPAN repository.

And here I was hoping for a discussion about putting wheels on web servers and racing them.

.. a relational database management system developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 2.6 MB disk-space footprint.